Pin2DMD Jumbled on Super Mario Mushroom World

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I hooked up my display to my Super Mario Mushroom World machine and the image on the display is somewhat scrambled. I hooked up the old dmd and that works fine. I also connected my pin2dmd back up to my Street Fighter and the display is working correctly on that machine. I'm hoping it's a setting issue but I tried using the Gottlieb V1, v2, and v3 modes and they all looked about the same. This is running on a v4 shield with the latest firmware from github. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Thanks for the reply @lucky1. I'm getting power from a dedicated 5v 10A power supply. I checked it and it was a little high, 5.15v, so I adjusted it down to 4.9v. Hopefully I have time in the next few days to try it in the machine again.

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I tried the display in my machine again and it is having the same issue. I also tried a second display and power supply and swapping the ribbon cable with the one from my street fighter. Both displays work on street fighter and are having the same issue on mario. I looked through scottyc's info from his mario colorization and unfortunately he has the 3.1 shield from german gaming so it's not a direct comparison but i did notice that he had the 2.41 firmware installed. @lucky1 do you have an older version of the firmware for the nucleo-144/shield v4 that I could try? I currently have 2.58 installed.

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The only files on the sd card are the key file and the pin2dmd.dat file with the config settings so it's running off of the pinball machine's roms. As far as I know there are no colorization files for this machine yet, I was hoping to do the dump and try coloring it. I was under the impression that this would act like a normal dmd even without those files. I did put the pal and fsq files from the other mario machine's project on the sd card once just to see if it would make a difference but I had the same issue.

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I tried the display in my machine again and it is having the same issue. I also tried a second display and power supply and swapping the ribbon cable with the one from my street fighter. Both displays work on street fighter and are having the same issue on mario. I looked through scottyc's info from his mario colorization and unfortunately he has the 3.1 shield from german gaming so it's not a direct comparison but i did notice that he had the 2.41 firmware installed. @lucky1 do you have an older version of the firmware for the nucleo-144/shield v4 that I could try? I currently have 2.58 installed.

If they are working both in your streetfighter it is not a firmware issue. Seems like a problem with your Gottlieb DMD controller.
Is there another ROM version available for the Gottlieb display controller you could try ?

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Gottlieb V1 should be the right mode for Mario. I don´t think that your controller is defective, but maybe you have installed a ROM version which
I did not analyze / implement so far. There are at least 3 different versions for Mario I know of.

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O.K. I overread that it is a mushroom world. Gottlieb played a lot with the DMD signals in the early machines.
I think that has never been tested so far and that it works with super marion bros. does not automatically mean that it
works with super mario mushrooms world. If you want we can try to analyze what the problem is but you need to
buy a cheap logic analyzer to make a recording of the signals for me